Craftival - Redcliffe

Next date: Saturday, 30 May 2026 | 09:00 AM to 02:00 PM

Craftival is a one-day celebration of handmade crafts and creativity at Redcliffe Library on Saturday May 30, 2026. The event will include:  

• inspirational talks from local creatives
• pop-up marketplace selling handmade products from local creative businesses
• workshops and drop-in hands-on activities
• check out our new creative spaces and studios
• face painting and family friendly activities
• food trucks.  

Introducing Youth Market Space

In 2026 we are working with Youngpreneur Markets by Chloe to provide a Youth Market space.

What's on

• Main stage
• Workshops
• Drop-in creativity

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Main stage

9:15 AM | Event welcome

9:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Meet Bonnie Hislop

Meet local artist Bonnie Hislop as she shares experiences on her creative journey working with ceramics from functional homewares to large scale sculptures. Be inspired by her use of art to connect with human experience and the world around us. 

10:45 AM to 11:00 AM | Meet Russell Solomon

Join Russell – a local wire sculptor, artist and community arts worker - as he shares the story behind his unique wire sculptures. Russell will share what inspires him and drives his creativity. Watch as he demonstrates the making of a small sculpture from a roll of wire to a piece of art.

11:15 AM to 12:15 PM | Meet Julie Hillier

Julie is the creative director at Ministry of Handmade, a Brisbane-based business that has its roots in sharing the joy of making. The daughter of a dressmaker and an exceptionally handy dad, Julie jokes that she learned to count by sorting the contents of the button tin on the floor of her mother’s sewing room.

Over the years she has also studied design, knitted, crocheted, made quilts, recovered lounge suites, renovated four houses, made furniture, refurbished lampshades, made curtains, done clothing alterations for boutiques, spun wool, assembled short runs of garments for award-winning fashion designers, themed events and published books.

The textile workshop business she started in 2012, Ministry of Handmade, has organically morphed into a business with a focus on the joy of lampshade making.

12:30 PM to 12:45 PM | Meet Chloe Alley

Join Chloe as she shares her inspiring journey as youth entrepreneur – from starting her own small business at age 13 to forming the Youngpreneur markets offering a safe and welcoming space for youth in the local community to be able to showcase their own creative businesses.

12:45 PM | Meet Roz Holt

Roz is the CEO and founder of The Nest Community, a local charity that connects women purposefully through craft. Roz is passionate about community, sustainability and conservation – three principles that are the core of The Nest, a social enterprise that she’s been leading for over 14 years.

Find out more about the valuable work The Nest does to provide opportunities for recirculating goods, sharing skills, and supporting people to navigate change in practical ways - and how you can support it.  When people and resources are equally valued, we can change the world.

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Workshops

All workshops are free.

Intro to metalsmithing with Jemica Ostrofski

This event is suitable for adults and has two sessions available:

• 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

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Buzzing with creativity sculpture workshop with Russell Solomon

This event is suitable for children 6 years and older and has two sessions available:

• 9:45 AM to 10:15 AM
• 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM

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Sew easy: Learn to sew a drawstring bag with Mel Brady

This event is suitable for children 12 and older and three sessions available:

• 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
• 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

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Drop-in creativity

Activities are available between 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM.

Basket weaving

Drop in to meeting room 1 for a chat and learn the cultural practice of basket weaving with local Wakka Wakka woman, Kristine Ellis, and members of the Pumicestone Indigenous Education and Employment Council.

Beaded jewellery with Sunday Jemmott

Drop in to create your own waterproof beaded jewels with Sunday Jemmott and the Redcliffe Art Gallery team. Sunday Jemmott is an emerging artist based in Brisbane/Magandjin whose immersive creative space The Ribbon Room is currently showing at the gallery. They use a vibrant, mixed media approach to emphasise the value of play in art and contemporary culture. Sunday and the gallery team will guide you through this fun activity that celebrates adornment and self-expression.

Creaturely Encounters

Step outside the library to the Irene Street carpark and join this free creative workshop, Creaturely Encounters. Join artist Kylie Harris and write or draw a story about an interaction or meeting you had with a creature. You can peg up your story on the Storyline and read other people’s stories.

Crafty kids and facepainting fun

The kids will be taken care of with free facepainting and craft activities in the library.

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When

Location

Redcliffe Library, 476 Oxley Avenue, Redcliffe, 4020, View map